There's a bit of a story going on between Google, Acer, and Alibaba, a Chinese mobile operating system vendor. Acer wanted to ship a device with Alibaba's operating system, but Google asked them not to, and Acer complied. The reason is that Acer is a member of the Open Handset Alliance, which prohibits the promotion of non-standard Android implementations - exactly what Alibaba is shipping. On top of that, Alibaba's application store hosts pirated Android applications, including ones from Google.

Google made a typical Big Brother mistake:
* Nationalistic tensions are running high in China (island dispute with Japan)
* Acer could use a subsidiary to launch this phone;
* All OEMs will study this case;
* Excellent publicity for the Aliyun OS, which is Linux + HTML5 btw;
* worst-case scenario: Android/Google could even be banned from China.
* the "stop piracy in China" argument is laughable, at best.